| Description |
1 online resource (289 pages) |
| Series |
Cultural Histories of Theatre and Performance Ser.
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Cultural Histories of Theatre and Performance Ser.
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| Contents |
List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: -- Theatre and South African Public Spheres -- Chapter 1 -- Commemorating and Contesting Emancipation: Pageants and other enactments -- Chapter 2 -- Neocolonial theatre and the "African National Dramatic Movement" -- Chapter 3 -- (Anti- )Apartheid Theatre in the Shadow of Sophiatown -- Chapter 4 -- Advance and Retreat of the Afrikaner Ascendancy -- Chapter 5 -- Dramas of Black Solidarity -- Chapter 6 -- Theatre as Testimony -- and Performance Against Apartheid -- Chapter 7 -- Prospects and Retro-spects in Post-anti-apartheid Theatre -- Chapter 8 -- The Constitution of South African Theatre at the Present Time -- Abbreviations and Glossary -- Abbreviations, key terms from South Africa's indigenous languages; and distinctive South African variants of English words and phrases -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
"Theatre is not part of our vocabulary": Sipho Sepamla's provocation in 1981, the year of famous anti-apartheid play Woza Albert!, prompts the response, yes indeed, it is. A Century of South African Theatre demonstrates the impact of theatre and other performances-pageants, concerts, sketches, workshops, and performance art-over the last hundred years. Its coverage includes African responses to pro-British pageants celebrating white Union in 1910, such as the Emancipation Centenary of the abolition of British colonial slavery in 1934 organized by Griffiths Motsieloa and HIE Dhlomo, through anti-apartheid testimonial theatre by Athol Fugard, Maishe Maponya, Gcina Mhlophe, and many others, right up to the present dramatization of state capture, inequality and state violence in today's unevenly democratic society, where government has promised much but delivered little. Building on Loren Kruger's personal observations of forty years as well as her published research, A Century of South African Theatre provides theoretical coordinates from institution to public sphere to syncretism in performance in order to highlight South Africa's changing engagement with the world from the days of Empire, through the apartheid era to the multi-lateral and multi-lingual networks of the 21st century. The final chapters use the Constitution's injunction to improve wellbeing as a prompt to examine the dramaturgy of new problems, especially AIDS and domestic violence, as well as the better known performances in and around the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Kruger critically evaluates internationally known theatre makers, including the signature collaborations between animator/designer William Kentridge, and Handspring Puppet Company, and highlights the local and transnational impact of major post-apartheid companies such as Magnet Theatre."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Theater -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century.
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Theater -- South Africa -- History -- 21st century.
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Theater. |
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South Africa. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kruger, Loren. A Century of South African Theatre. London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, ©2019 9781350008007 |
| ISBN |
1350008036 |
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9781350008038 (electronic bk.) |
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1350008044 |
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9781350008045 |
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1350008028 |
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9781350008021 |
| Standard No. |
10.5040/9781350008045 |
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